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WASHINGTON (AP) — District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser and Police Chief Cathy Lanier say they are confronting a spike in violent crime. D.C. officials announced at a news conference on Thursday that three arrests…

WASHINGTON – The National Park Service helped rescue some adorable additions to the White House grounds. The Park Service tweeted a photo Tuesday of baby squirrels discovered near the White House Monday. With help from…

WASHINGTON — D.C. has the second to worst public school system in the United States, according to a new study from WalletHub, which analyzed dropout rates, math, reading and SAT scores, among other metrics. The…

WASHINGTON — Each year more than 2 million parking tickets are written in D.C. and while most of them are legitimate tickets, others are obvious errors. For example, tens of thousands of tickets are written…

WASHINGTON — Police have arrested a man wanted for an October homicide at a D.C. barbershop. On Thursday, the Metropolitan Police Department arrested 27-year-olf Antwon Deangelo Green of Southeast D.C. for his role in the…

WASHINGTON — The often-sensitive debate over what’s called “death with dignity” will have its first hearing in the District Friday, offering the public a voice on giving terminally ill people a way to end their…

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Police have arrested a 19-year-old man and charged him in the death of another man whose body was found burning in a trash can in northeast Washington. Police said Wednesday that they…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware has reintroduced a bill that would transform the District of Columbia into the nation’s 51st state. Carper is a Democrat and a longtime supporter of statehood for…

WASHINGTON — Despite being trapped on a train in a smoke-filled tunnel, passengers aboard the Metro Yellow Line train that got stuck near L’Enfant Plaza in January showed an uncanny cool. Interviews with the first…